Jar-closure.



PATENTED MAY 22, 1906.

\ G. U. PARKER.

JAR CLOSURE APPLICATION FILED mum/ 190a.

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citizen of the United warren s'ra'rns 7 PATENT Ol l lfifi.

oiiAnLns c. PARKER, or BALTIMORE,

MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO MOTT G. GlLLETTE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

tlMH GlmO$URE ire. 821,596.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented may 22, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known .that I, CHARLES C. PARKER,-a.

States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful J ar-(llosure,- of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to closures for jars such as milk-bottles, jelly-glasses, pickle-jars,

and the like.and has for itsobject'to provide a closure corresponding to the pulp cap in ordinary use in connection with a bottle or jar having a neck with an interior groove in which it is mounted, but provided with special means to enable the easy removal of .the cap.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Flgure 1 represents a vertical section of the neck of a milk-bottle with my improved cap mounted therein. Fig. 2- is aplan View of the cap. Fi 3 is an ed e view thereof with the short bri ge broken through and the portion of the cap depressed to allow the insertion of the finger to remove the cap, and Fig. 4 represents a vertical section of a jelly-glass with my improved closure applied thereto.

In the accompanying drawings like numerals of reference refer each of the views.

In practice I provide a cap 5, which is preferably made of pulp-board, the same as now used for caps of a similar kind, which is mounted in the neck 6 of a milk-bottle hav-' ing an interior annular groove 7 or in a similar manner in any jar which itis desired to close with a cap of this nature. In thecap 5 I out two semicircular slots 8 and 9, which are preferably opposed to each other, as

shown, and so disposed that a narrow bridge 10 is left between the ends of the slot at one side of the cap and a wider bridge 11 is. left between the opposite ends for purposes hereinafter describe In operation when the cap is in place in the neck of a jar and it is desired to remove the same the narrow bridge 10 is broken through by pressing down upon the inclosed piece 12 until this small portion is ruptured, when'the part 12 may be depressed, as shown in Fig.

in the operation the part 1 1 being wider than I the bridge 10 will not be broken I time as the bridge 10 but when the bridge 10 to the same parts in- 3, until the end of the finger can be in-- serted through the opening to en age the at the same is broken the bridge 11 will serve as a hinge to permit the swinging downward of the part 12 to allow the insertion of the finger without precipitating the entire part 12 into the contents of the jar.

Informing the slots 8 and 9 a sharp blade is used, so that the pulp-board is simply cut through without cutting away any of the Ina-- terial, and where the caps are parafiined, as is usually done with the'better grade of caps, lthe paraflin will fill the slots 8 and 9, so that even air will fbe prevented passing through these slots; but this will in no way interfere with the easy breaking of the bridge 10.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a simple and eflicient means of providing for the easy removal of the cap .or closure, a meansthat in no wise interferes with the .usefulness of the cap. a

In Fig. 4 I have shown the closure applied to a jelly-glass 1'3; Informinga closure for this purpose I prefer to'use the ordinary or speclally treated paper 14 on top of the jelly and the cap or closure 5 at a slight distance above this, which inthis icase will act more, as a dust shield for the paper Hand willalsdi act as a protector to prevent thedisturbm 0f the paper 14,

\ Having thus described Ilclaim as new, and desire to secure-b.- j -Lete ters Patent of the United Stateajise 1. A jar-closure' comprising tnbmasicapr having converging slots br-twatiae ends of the slots. are nearer together-than the other ortions of the slots.

2. jar-closure comprising sp rs cap 51-6- .1 i.

apte to vided with "a perforated portion a I be broken away, said perforations being-filled with parafiin, or similar material, for the purpose set forth.

vided with semioircul ar slots sufficiently c ose together to render the intervening bridge easily breakable, for the purpose set forth.

4. A j ar-closure compr sing a pulp cap provided withsemicircula'r slots oppositely disposed and so related that they are nearer together at one'end than at the opposite end, as and for the purposeset forth. 4

ar-closure comprising a pulp cap ro- ICU 5. A jar-closure comprising a l cap vided with semicircular slots whereby a portion thereof is made easily breakable, said the breaking and depression of said slotted slots being filled with parafiin, or similar niaportion, for the purpose set forth.

terial, as and for the purpose set forth. In testimony whereof I have signed my 6. The combination with a jar having the name to this specification in the presence of 5 contents thereof covered with prepared pa two subscribing Witnesses.

per of a jar-closure comprisin' a pulp cap pro vided with semicircular slo ts oppositely CHARLES PARKER disposed and nearer together at one end than 1 Witnesses:

at the other; said cap being mounted a sufli- HOWARD E. CRUSE,

1o cient distance above said paper to allow of JNo. L. W001). 

